Career Development

Students from all engineering disciplines at Missouri S&T attended a career development opportunity and learned from experts working in the engineering field as part of the university’s National Engineers Week 2023 activities.

Wendy Bailey, ArchE’07, MS CE’08, and Stacy Wagner, both engineers at Burns & McDonnell, delivered a talk titled “Owning your engineering career in the early years.” into intricate shapes with no form work and with little or no reinforcing steel that is typically required to resist tensile stresses in reinforced concrete structures.”

“Both Wendy and Stacey have already had incredible careers as engineers, and this was a valuable presentation for our students to attend,” says Dr. Joel Burken, Curators’ Distinguished Professor and chair of S&T’s civil, architectural and environmental engineering department.

Students learned about projects Bailey and Wagner completed. They discussed their college experiences and provided advice for aspiring engineers about their work-life balance. Students also learned about Burns & McDonnell, its locations, possible internship opportunities and whatever else the speakers anticipated students wanted to know.

Bailey was a member of S&T’s cross country and track teams, as well as the Student Athlete Advisory Council, Blue Key Honor Society and the Chi Epsilon International Civil Engineering Honor Society. She was inducted into S&T’s Academy of Miner Athletics and received the 2020 Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the Academy of Civil Engineers.

Khayat, center, is a pioneer in 3D printing of ultra-high-performance concrete.

The project that began in April 2022 will examine three different strength classes of concrete and develop quality control test methods for 3D printing.

The second project examines ultra-high-performance concrete and how it can be used for 3D printing with three different construction methods: layer-by-layer, sprayed

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She has worked for the past 15 years at Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City and is currently an associate structural engineer and the structural department manager in the company’s Aviation and Federal Group.

Wagner earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Marshall University. She was also a college athlete, having played on the women’s golf team. After interning with J.E. Dunn in 2006-07, she joined Burns & McDonnell as a civil engineer in 2008 and is currently the civil department manager and an associate civil engineer in the company’s Aviation and Federal Group.